I decided to give MaaS 3.0 a spin the other day, followed the docs to "maas init region+rack", but while the script said all was ok, I couldn't open the web UI on port 5240. Which was no surprise, as there was no process listening to port 5240.
Searching the logs it appeared regiond had some trouble starting:
2021-08-07 12:14:01 maasserver.start_up: [error] Database error during start-up
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/snap/maas/15003/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/django/db/backends/utils.py", line 84, in _execute
return self.cursor.execute(sql, params)
psycopg2.errors.InvalidTextRepresentation: invalid input syntax for type macaddr: "a0:00:03:00:fe:80:00:00:00:00:00:00:e4:1d:2d:03:00:4f:06:e2"
LINE 1: ...ss" IN ('44:a8:42:ba:a3:b4', '10:98:36:99:7d:9e', 'a0:00:03:...
^
The (long) MAC address belongs to an infiniband interface created by IPoIB module. The error comes from Postgresql refusing to store an address not conforming to type 'macaddr', but shouldn't regiond have the capacity to handle this error gracefully and continue, something like ignoring the problematic interface altogether.
To get regiond started, I had to remove the IPoIB driver.
Re-enabling IPoIB later afterwards isn't an option, as even though regiond started ok, it still had trouble running 50-maas-01-commissioning script for much the same reason and things went south again.
A full trace of the regiond start up problem is attached.
I am new to MaaS but if guided I can provide any additional information required as well as test fixes.
Thanks,
-K.
can you get the output of sudo /snap/maas/